2-Letter Words Starting with Y

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2-Letter Words Starting with Y (34 words)
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yen (6 points)
Japan's capital (wordplay)
Cabbage for miso soup (wordplay)
The capital of Japan (wordplay)
Y·4+E·1+N·1 = 6 pts
yin (6 points)
Dark half of a swirl, maybe
Dark side (wordplay)
Dark side of China (wordplay)
Y·4+I·1+N·1 = 6 pts
yon (6 points)
On the horizon, say
Hither's partner (wordplay)
That (over there)
Y·4+O·1+N·1 = 6 pts
yarn (7 points)
'The one that got away,' say
Spinning class material (wordplay)
The one that got away, say
Y·4+A·1+R·1+N·1 = 7 pts
yawn (10 points)
Jaw-dropping opening (wordplay)
Catch flies (wordplay)
bo-o-o-ring! (nonverbal)
Y·4+A·1+W·4+N·1 = 10 pts
yean (7 points)
Drop one's kid (wordplay)
Have a little lamb (wordplay)
Give birth, as a sheep
Y·4+E·1+A·1+N·1 = 7 pts
yuan (7 points)
Chinese cabbage (wordplay)
Kublai Khan's dynasty
Dollar of the Chinese Republic.
Y·4+U·1+A·1+N·1 = 7 pts
yamen (10 points)
Residence of a Chinese official
Mandarin's office
Mandarin's quarters
Y·4+A·1+M·3+E·1+N·1 = 10 pts
yamun (10 points)
""The residence of a Chinese official, also YAMEN""
Y·4+A·1+M·3+U·1+N·1 = 10 pts
yapon (10 points)
Tealike shrub
Y·4+A·1+P·3+O·1+N·1 = 10 pts
yearn (8 points)
Strongly long (for)
Crave (with "for")
Be homesick say
Y·4+E·1+A·1+R·1+N·1 = 8 pts
yogin (9 points)
Mostly, you drink with mystic (5; var.)
Mostly you drink with mystic var
One in a lotus position
Y·4+O·1+G·2+I·1+N·1 = 9 pts
yourn (8 points)
Not mine in Dogpatch (wordplay)
Not mine, in bucolic comic strips
Not mine in the hills
Y·4+O·1+U·1+R·1+N·1 = 8 pts
yulan (8 points)
A Chinese magnolia
Y·4+U·1+L·1+A·1+N·1 = 8 pts
yupon (10 points)
Holly tea used by Indians of southern U. S
Y·4+U·1+P·3+O·1+N·1 = 10 pts
yaupon (11 points)
Type of holly
Southern holly
Y·4+A·1+U·1+P·3+O·1+N·1 = 11 pts
yeelin (9 points)
""An animal over one but not two, also YEARLING""
Y·4+E·1+E·1+L·1+I·1+N·1 = 9 pts
yeoman (11 points)
One may (anagram)
. . . . . . of the Guard (operetta)
Beefeater, for one
Y·4+E·1+O·1+M·3+A·1+N·1 = 11 pts
yeomen (11 points)
You people of the guard!
Royal servants (hist.)
- - of the Guard (G&S)
Y·4+E·1+O·1+M·3+E·1+N·1 = 11 pts
youpon (11 points)
A shrub
Y·4+O·1+U·1+P·3+O·1+N·1 = 11 pts
yardman (13 points)
Farmworker employed in making up trains!
Certain railroad worker
Guy mowing lawns, for example
Y·4+A·1+R·1+D·2+M·3+A·1+N·1 = 13 pts
yardmen (13 points)
Guys with mowers
Some railroad employees
Landscaper's crew
Y·4+A·1+R·1+D·2+M·3+E·1+N·1 = 13 pts
yatagan (11 points)
Weapon from Rubaiyat a gangster favoured
Turkish curved sword
Long usually curved Turkish dagger
Y·4+A·1+T·1+A·1+G·2+A·1+N·1 = 11 pts
yeggman (14 points)
US word for a burglar of safes
Safecracker
Y·4+E·1+G·2+G·2+M·3+A·1+N·1 = 14 pts
yeggmen (14 points)
Yeggman
Y·4+E·1+G·2+G·2+M·3+E·1+N·1 = 14 pts
yestern (10 points)
""Pertaining to yesterday, also YESTER""
Y·4+E·1+S·1+T·1+E·1+R·1+N·1 = 10 pts
youthen (13 points)
Renew
Y·4+O·1+U·1+T·1+H·4+E·1+N·1 = 13 pts
yachtman (18 points)
""One who sails a yacht, also YACHTER, YACHTIE""
Y·4+A·1+C·3+H·4+T·1+M·3+A·1+N·1 = 18 pts
yachtmen (18 points)
Yachtman
Y·4+A·1+C·3+H·4+T·1+M·3+E·1+N·1 = 18 pts
yataghan (15 points)
Turkish saber.
Turkish saber
Of more use to an offensive Turk than a gay
Y·4+A·1+T·1+A·1+G·2+H·4+A·1+N·1 = 15 pts
yestreen (11 points)
Last evening Poet
Last evening: Poet.
Someone we both know in a Victorian novel
Y·4+E·1+S·1+T·1+R·1+E·1+E·1+N·1 = 11 pts
yachtsman (19 points)
Sir Francis Chichester, perhaps
Vanderbilt or Lipton
Member of sailing crew
Y·4+A·1+C·3+H·4+T·1+S·1+M·3+A·1+N·1 = 19 pts
yachtsmen (19 points)
Sailors
Y·4+A·1+C·3+H·4+T·1+S·1+M·3+E·1+N·1 = 19 pts
yellowfin (18 points)
Cowardly end in Cannes (wordplay)
A tuna in foil, newly cooked
Shout now, if that is flaky tuna
Y·4+E·1+L·1+L·1+O·1+W·4+F·4+I·1+N·1 = 18 pts

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